Yes, social media and maybe even the internet as a whole will radicalize its users. Facebook is a groupthink incubator. So is hacker news. I've witnessed many people change their political beliefs to match whichever group they belong to.
Example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25768269
And things that contradict The Great Stallman teachings like TiVoization (even in self-driving cars) or saying that something can be done more efficiently with Windows (or just not Linux/OSS in general) or that plenty of ML is outright useless BS that does more harm that good.
Edit: Thanks to whoever unflagged the HN post! Let's see how long it'll stay unflagged this time!
are people here this naive?
What do you think?
Well, I think very often commands have very not intuitive names of parameters, very often some seemingly random letters
When it comes to me,
I use Linux for server related stuff, hosting my things and stuff, also I like raw terminal Linux because there's nothing happening, so no distractions
but day-to-day I use Windows.
Can one be too logical? Too empirical? Too scientific?
For example, if you've been hanging around here for the last few months, you might pick up on a sizable percentage of the population believes that paying people who live in SF more than people who live in Minneapolis is literally the worst thing ever.
Radicalizing is the wrong word, but this is a pretty strange bubble and it's easy to lose sight of that.
To be fair, I don't think of these people as radicals so much as they are suffering from Stockholm syndrome. The bubble that protects them is strong here.
Social animals conform to the social norms of their pack.